Walk Off the Weight
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- Tone As You Walk
- Perfect Your Walking Form
- Fight Stress While You Walk
- Get the Right Gear
Tone As You Walk
Alternate these two get-trim walks throughout the week -- the sculpting is ingeniously built in!
Walk 1: 30-Minute Upper-Body Blitz
Forget hand weights or park-bench push-ups. You can walk your way to sleek shoulders, a sculpted back, and toned arms without them by doing these upper-body exercises while you walk.
Walk 2: Get a Firmer Butt in 30 Minutes
Surprise: Your average walk is not a workout for your derriere. Use these rear-sculpting moves on your walk to get a better butt fast.
Hit the Right Pace
Aim for a walking speed that's about 75 percent of your maximum effort, meaning you can speak in choppy sentences. Depending on your level, that may be a very brisk 4.5 miles per hour (which burns 403 calories* an hour) but -- and here's the golden rule -- try not to let it dip below 3 miles per hour (211 calories an hour). That's the point at which women drop below the moderate-intensity exercise zone, the minimum you need to do to get cardio benefits from your workout.
*Calorie burns are based on a 140-pound woman.








